port:libclang (and libLLVM)

[Jack Howarth]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:36 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday March 09 2016 18:00:07 Jack Howarth wrote:
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>> Have you checked to make sure that the installed llvm packages aren't
>> built as the +assertions variant? The use of assertions will have a
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> Oh yes. With that variant active the performance hit is much worse from what I recall, so I've been making a point of it only to install release versions, without assertions active.
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>> 3.8.0. However, port isn't smart enough to honor that change for
>> previous installations of llvm-3.8 so the +assertions variant will
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> I wouldn't call the user who doesn't notice that all of a sudden a clang/llvm upgrade takes hours because built from source particularly bright either ;)
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>> slower than the same under the fink packaging of llvm38/clang38 but
>> the fink packaging uses the default -O3 optimization whereas MacPorts
>> resets the build to use -Os instead,
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> Frankly I'd be surprised if that leads to a 10% performance difference!

Why? My understanding is that the optimizations for -Os are equivalent
to -O2 with the emphasis on size reduction. The additional
optimizations from -O2 to -O3 would seem sufficient to produce a 10%
execution optimization, no?

>
>> Also, keep in mind that each release of clang has been getting slower
>> over time as discussed in this thread...
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> Indeed, which is why I compared comparable versions in the past; my "up to 50%" estimate is based on that.
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>> > Is there a reason the LLVM ports build a shared libLLVM?
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> ?
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> R.